“A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.”

“A smooth sea never made a skilled marine.”

“Death is a shadow that always follows the body”

“The absent are always wrong.”

“Everyone must row with the oars he has.”

“The shortest answer is doing.”

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. ...”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”

“When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been eng...”